Nutrition
Tatale (Spiced plantain pancakes)
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Tatale is a Ghanaian dish traditionally made with overriped plantains, flour, cornmeal, and spices like ginger, onions, and hot pepper. It is mostly served as main meal or snack.
Ingredients
-2 large overriped plantains
– ½ cup of cornmeal
-½ teaspoonful of salt
-½ teaspoonful of garlic powder
-1 teaspoonful of grated fresh ginger
-1 green onion, chopped
-½-1 teaspoonful of cayenne pepper or hot sauce (depending on one’s taste
– Vegetable oil
Preparation
-Mash plantains in a medium bowl with a potato masher or spoon until it turns into a puree.
-Add the cornmeal, salt, garlic, ginger, and cayenne pepper.
-Stir in green onions and parsley until fully combined.
-Heat a skillet on medium-high with about three tablespoons of oil.
-Scoop about cup batter into the skillet and cook until each side is golden brown (about 5 minutes each).
Serve with stew, Bambara beans
Source: Africanbites.com
Nutrition
Orange Juice
Orange juice
Ingredients
Oranges
Water
Method
—Wash and peel oranges
—Cut the oranges into two and remove seeds
—Put oranges in a blender
—Add water to cover par
tially and blend until smooth
—When properly blended, strain juice with a fine mesh strainer to remove the pitch
—Serve with ice cubes and enjoy
By Elizabeth Agyeibea Ackon
Nutrition
Garden egg stew
Garden egg stew
Ingredients:
-Ten large garden eggs
-Half cup of palm oil
-2 red bell pepper
-3 large tomatoes (Optional)
-2 large onions
-One large wele
-2 medium-sized smoked fish
– A medium size Momoni (Salted fish)
Preparation
-Washgarden eggs and cook
-Wash pepper, onions, tomatoes and blend
-Put oil on fire and add Momoni
– Add blended onions, tomatoes, pepper to cook for sometime
– Blend or grind garden eggs and add to blended onion, tomatoes and pepper.
-Add fish and salt to the mixture and allow it to cook for sometime.
– Serve with rice, plantain or yam
